Workshops
A GOOD HARVEST - A harvest basket weaving workshop
This five hour workshop offers a space to gather together with the soulful practices of harvesting plant material from the land and working it to become a rustic and beautiful autumn harvest basket.
Making use of Common ivy sourced on site, we will work with a pan cultural twining technique to weave our baskets. Using this invasive and fast growing plant, we will offer support to the land, even if in a minute way, to move towards balance. The rhythmic process of weaving will simultaneously work some balance into us through the slow and mindful work of our hands.
This workshop will be offered on the following dates:
Sundays: Oct 4th / Nov 8th
11am - 4pm
Tuesdays: Oct 6th / Nov 17th
9:30 - 2:30pm
Private Warrandyte location given upon booking
$120 standard / $100 concession or bring a friend / $80 supported or returning weaver
Full details and bookings here: https://events.humanitix.com/a-good-harvest
To Be Woven - A day long workshop weaving baskets together as we sing in circle
The basket and the song are two expressions of the same ancient human impulse: to gather, to make, to remember, and to belong.
To be Woven is a day-long weaving and song immersion exploring the ways creative practise can draw us into deeper relationship with ourselves, one another and the living world.
About this workshop
Throughout the morning we will introduce the practice of coil basket weaving, allowing our hands to settle into the gentle rhythm of weaving. Song will weave through the day, sometimes gently accompanying our making, at other times inviting us to pause, listen, and enjoy resting in collective singing.
After sharing a potluck lunch together, the afternoon will open more fully into collective song. Through simple melodies, layered harmonies and the richness of many voices entwined, we will discover how singing can deepen the weaving, and how weaving can deepen the singing.
Through rhythm, repetition, shared voices, and shared work of the hands, we begin to experience ourselves being woven together, as community, as village, as companions in the creative act.
We come to weave. We leave having been woven.
Sunday October 11th, 10 - 4pm
Private Address, Preston/Naarm, Wurundjeri Country, given upon booking.
$140 full / $120 concession/Bring a Friend price / $90 supported.
Full details and bookings here: events.humanitix.com/to-be-woven-a-five-hour-workshop-weaving-baskets-together-as-we-sing-in-circle
COLOUR GATHERING: Earth paint making workshops
Making paint, practicing reciprocity, and learning from the earth
In this hands-on workshop, we will explore the process of making earth based watercolour paints from gathered stones and natural binders. We’ll spend time noticing and gathering rocks that have already been separated from the earth, honouring their long journey and the ancient processes that have shaped them. Through grinding, patience and attention, we will transform these fragments into earth pigments and create our own handmade paints.
Evening sessions:
Tuesday October 20th / Tuesday October 27th
6:30 - 8:30pm
Standard: $70
Concession: $60
Bring a friend: $60 each
Full details and bookings here: https://events.humanitix.com/colourgathering
Are you interested in a custom workshop?
Workshops can be designed to suit your group;
Gatherings of family and friends, staff events, birthdays, baby blessings, retreats and more